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im chuck todd. were a long way from knowing whether the supreme court will throw out the health insurance mandate. court wont rule until june. they take a secret vote this week to see where they are. but as if the stakes werent high enough already, the justices seem to agree that if it does, most of the law, if it strikes down the mandate, most of the law should go to the mandate. >> once you cut the guts out of it, who knows, who knows which were really desired by congress on their ow...

But the way these elections are you want to start the contrast as soon as possible and thats the down side to having a prolonged nomination among others. >> democratic pollster fred yang, good to see you. thank you. in weeks "office politics" we continue our conversation with dan rather. we discuss the humble origins of his texasisms, but we begin with whats behind the deep divisions in washington. >> i think it started with the polarization of the society. politics adapted that, and some of t...

the ground and debris littering that ground there. many parts of tennessee were affected from the city of ottawa. we just received this video showing damage filling the street and stuck with trees. many homes lost parts of their roof, but most devastation is in southern indiana. this in the town of henriville and were getting a good look at the damage and entire homes are ripped from their foundations and are surrounded by dozens of downed trees. the most dramatic image may be the scho...

family budget today that are street and stuck with trees. totally going up. many homes lost parts of their one is health insurance and the other is the cost of gasoline roof, but most devastation is in and neither are reflected in the game at all and you can move southern indiana. this in the town of henriville your minivan across the board and were getting a good look at without worrying about what it the damage and entire homes are costs to fill at the pump and ripped from their foun...

Pollster. john harwood, how campaign-y did you think it was. >> he didnt just dip in, he was swimming in it the whole night. look, that was a campaign speech. the president has a lot of things hed like to do, but knows he cant do it with the congress right now. hell bet the payroll tax still edges, but not a lot else. he was sketching out a road map of his values and priorities. >> it felt like a vision speech when i look at bush 04, reagan, clinton 96, they all had the feel of it. >> its the na...

Republicans, as fred said, things are going well no newt gingrich, and mitt romney needs to figure out a way to defend the plan better than he has so far and stay on a consistent message. he really needs to win florida. >> the romney campaign is pushing this freddie mac thing, and saying, look, whether he claims he was an official lobbyist or not, he was helping freddie mac figure out how to lobby. >> absolutely. the new contract that came out late last night, they uncovered their first contract...

Her last moment here in congress. so overall bipartisan, everybody is a big fan of gabby giffords today. >> we will continue coverage and chris jansing will take it live when we see the congresswoman come in. luke russert, thanks very much. lets finish up with our panel. john harwood, jeanne cummings, and fred yang. all right. we saw the president, john harwood, take on wall street, take on congress. let me ask you about the wall street portion. how upset will wall street react to some of what t...

2008, but in the election environment of 2012 hell take that estrangement and wear it as a badge of honor with independents. >> jeanne, hitting congress, daring them to do reform bills. i thought it was funny he mentioned this insider trading bill, which is this ability to take congress and wall street and lump them together. >> clearly hes going to run against congress, they will try to link this republican nominee to this congress. they began using it in september and we will hear it all the w...

More ammunition to take against gingrich. in addition, the romney camp is also focusing a lot on his work on health care, right. >> which could be a richer vein. >> all right, john, jeannie, fred, stick around. trivia time. the answer -- william henry harrison and james garfield, because neither lived long enough to deliver any type of annual message. well be right back. youre watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. e action. i go to e-trade and tap into the power of revolutionary mobile...

Are invisibly at work, protecting peoples lives... [ soldier ] move out! [ male announcer ] ...without their even knowing it. thats the value of performance. northrop grumman. president obama veered into campaign territory more than once last night. >> when americans talk about folks like me paying my fair share of taxes, its not because they envy the rich. its because they understand that whether i get a tax break i dont need and the country cant afford, it either adds to the deficit or someb...